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TheOtherDave comments on Poly marriage? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 11 June 2012 01:26:50PM 0 points [-]

Agreed on all of this.

More generally, what I want laws governing marriage and parentage to do is formalize social support for family arrangements in a way that provides equal support for all families that share the properties that I value supporting. The most important of those properties is a commitment by an individual to provide logistical, economic, and psychological support to another individual in times of crisis.

Within the specific context of poly marriages, I want the law to do that for families that include more than two adults, but that's just a special case of what I think marriage and parentage law (more broadly, family law) is for.